Business News Americas is the official online media partner of the APEC CEO Summit, Peru 2008

Business News Americas is the official online media partner of the APEC CEO Summit, the most important gathering of the key players from the principal economies in the Asia-Pacific region to be held during this year's APEC Summit.

APEC CEO Summit

The APEC CEO Summit Summit was first held in 1996 with the goal of enabling business leaders from APEC's 21 member economies to interact and generate a fluid commercial exchange among Asia-Pacific participants. The CEO Summit is also focused on providing a variety of tools and opportunities for attracting strategic collaboration and networking between business leaders and important political figures who focus on free trade agreements between member countries..

Business News Americas

BNamericas is a bilingual news service with 13 years experience in the market covering the most important original stories in 13 separate business sectors throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. We have over 50 journalists and researchers monitoring the region to bring you the most important daily news affecting Latin America's principal emerging economies. Our experienced team relies upon an extensive network of contacts and business leaders and reviews hundreds of daily publications, online and in print, to bring you the most complete daily news coverage in the sectors of interest that we follow in Latin America.

APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) is a multilateral forum that was instituted in 1989 to facilitate issues related to trade, economic coordination and cooperation among member economies.

APEC's objective is to promote sustainable economic growth, to develop and strengthen a multilateral system for trade and to boost the interdependence and prosperity of participating economies.

APEC's activities are grounded in three pillars:

• Free and open trade and investment
• Making business easier
• Technical and economic cooperation

The countries that form APEC are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, The Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Chile, Peru, the Russian Federation and Vietnam. APEC's 21 Member Economies account for approximately 56% of world GDP and about 49% of world trade.

 

For more information about APEC, visit the official website at

 

www.apec.org